Falkland Islands

• Tuesday, December 2nd 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina authorises squid fishery outside EEZ

  The national fishing authorities have authorised the Argentine fleet to fish squid outside the 200 miles Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) beginning 15 December. The measure will last until mid February, when the vessels will be able to enter Argentine waters to continue squid fishery.

• Monday, December 1st 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Caruana takes office Monday.

  Governor Sir Francis Richards yesterday signed the Warrant appointing Peter Richard Caruana QC as Chief Minister of Gibraltar.

• Monday, December 1st 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Polly Vacher reaches Antarctica

  British lady pilot Polly Vacher who is making a lone crossing of the world flying over both poles in a single engine aircraft reached this weekend Antarctica.

• Sunday, November 30th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Fisheries News.

  Headlines:
  Poachers to pay for their own pursuit and arrest; Australia and France coordinate actions against toothfish poaching; South Africa allocates long-term fishing rights; Chile, one of the three fishing powers world wide; Peru launches satellite monitoring; Australia introduces long-term fisheries rights; Stricter controls on red tide in Chubut.

• Sunday, November 30th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  “Crazy for the flag”.

  A television film, half fiction half reality, recalling the plight and miseries of Argentine Falklands veterans and their families since the end of the South Atlantic conflict in 1982 is currently being filmed in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz province in the extreme south of Patagonia.

• Friday, November 28th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Penguin News Update

  Headlines:
  Turners donates prize for Wireless for the Blind; ExCo decision was ?morally and constitutionally indefensible'; Break-in trouble for seamen; Minister calls in; Cruise ship visits.

• Friday, November 28th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar: GSD Win Election with 51% majority.

  The Gibraltar Social Democrats will form the Government for the next four years after winning the election with a 51% majority. The GSLP/Liberal Party will form the opposition after 40% of the electorate voted for them. Labour achieved 8% of the votes and the Reform party 1%.

• Thursday, November 27th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Gibraltar elects new government.

  As of 09:00 hours Thursday November 27 the people of Gibraltar will be casting their vote in what has been a quiet general election.

• Thursday, November 27th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine Memorial to be assembles in March.

  The Argentine permanent Memorial to be erected at Darwin cemetery is almost finished and sometime next February/March will be shipped and assembled in the Falkland Islands, according to a report in the Thursday edition of Buenos Aires daily “Clarín”.

• Wednesday, November 26th 2003 - 20:00 UTC

  Eighty Years On.

  Born at Black Rock, on East Falkland in 1923, I thought readers might be interested in my early life as a shepherd's son and in camp life in general.